212gr LRX 'Bore Rider'
Barnes Long Range X, arguably the most premier monometal hunting bullet made to date. All copper contruction retains 100% of it's weight, ensuring deep penetration through thick muscle and heavy bone. Sleek shape reduces air friction and improves downrange impact velocity and energy, minimizing wind deflection. A terrific choice in any caliber, for any game hunted - Barnes LRX
1:8 twist or faster, designed for 300 Norma Magnum, or long OAL 300 PRC rifles.
A nominal 30 caliber bullet, again, has a diameter of .308”. As a .308” diameter bullet enters into the throat of a barrel, each land engraves .004” into the side of said bullet. The land “grabs’s the bullet and imparts spin. This spin is what stabilizes the bullet, in flight, like when a football quarter back throws the football.
A Bore Rider bullet has two diameters; .308” and .300”. When looking at the Bore Rider bullet, starting at the bottom and moving up or forward to the tip. The taper portion is the boattail. Next, is the .308” full bore diameter section which rides in the bottom of the .308” diameter grooves; approximately .27” long. This is what is grabbed by the lands to spin the bullet. This is a very short section of the bullet. It is also the portion that MUST be in the neck of the cartridge case when the bullet is seated in the case. Too far forward or rearward of the neck the bullet will either fall out of the case entirely or fall down into the case, rattling around, so to speak since the powder inside would limit how much it drops into the case. This limits bullet seating depth and the ability to fit a loaded cartridge within the confines of the majority of rifle magazines. Forward of the full bore diameter section is the “bore riding” section; long and sleek at .299”; .001” less than the barrel’s lands. This portion of the bullet is not designed to grab any portion of a land or groove. It rides on top of the lands, thus a “bore rider”. It is there purely to give the bullet more mass. Finally, is the ogive; the forward portion of the bullet that gets pointy.”
50 count box
- Diameter:
- .308
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